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• the present invention relates to novel amino alcohol amine derivatives of L-N 6 -(1-iminoethyl)lysine, pharmaceutical compositions containing these novel compounds, and to their use in therapy, in particular their use as nitric oxide synthase inhibitors.
• endothelium-derived relaxing factor a labile humoral factor termed endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF).
• NO nitric oxide
• NO is the endogenous stimulator of the soluble guanylate cyclase and is involved in a number of biological actions in addition to endothelium-dependent relaxation including cytotoxicity of phagocytic cells and cell-to-cell communication in the central nervous system (see Moncada et al, Biochemical Pharmacology, 38, 1709-1715 (1989) and Moncada et al, Pharmacological Reviews, 43, 109-142 (1991). It is now thought that excess NO production may be involved in a number of conditions, particularly conditions which involve systemic hypotension such as toxic shock and therapy with certain cytokines.
• L-arginine analogue L-N-monomethyl-arginine
• L-NMMA L-N-monomethyl-arginine
• the therapeutic use of certain other NO synthase inhibitors apart from L-NMMA for the same purpose has also been proposed in WO 91/04024 and in EP-A-0446699.
• the NO released by the constitutive enzymes acts as a transduction mechanism underlying several physiological responses.
• the NO produced by the inducible enzyme is a cytotoxic molecule for tumor cells and invading microorganisms. It also appears that the adverse effects of excess NO production, in particular pathological vasodilation and tissue damage, may result largely from the effects of NO synthesized by the inducible NO synthase.
• autoimmune and/or inflammatory conditions affecting the joints for example arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, cardiovascular ischemia, diabetes, hyperalgesia (allodynia), cerebral ischemia (both focal ischemia, thrombotic stroke and global ischemia, secondary to cardiac arrest), and other CNS disorders mediated by NO.
• Use of such a non-selective NO synthase inhibitor requires that great care be taken in order to avoid the potentially serious consequences of over-inhibition of the constitutive NO-synthase including hypertension and possible thrombosis and tissue damage.
• L-NMMA for the treatment of toxic shock it has been recommended that the patient must be subject to continuous blood pressure monitoring throughout the treatment.
• NO synthase inhibitors which are selective in the sense that they inhibit the inducible NO synthase to a considerably greater extent than the constitutive isoforms of NO synthase would be of even greater therapeutic benefit and easier to use.
• WO94/12165, WO94/14780, WO93/13055, EP0446699A1, U.S. Pat. No. 5,132,453 and PCT/US95/02669 disclose compounds that inhibit nitric oxide synthesis and preferentially inhibit the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase.
• the disclosures of the U.S. Patent is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety as if written herein.
• novel amino alcohol amine derivatives of L-N 6 -(1-iminoethyl)lysine derivatives are provided.
• novel inhibitor compounds can be represented by the following chemical formula.
• Y is a hydrogen, lower alkyl radical, lower alkenyl radical,lower alkynyl radical, aromatic hydrocarbon radical, alicyclic hydrocarbon radical, amino, heterocyclyl radical in which 1 to about 4 heteroatoms are independently selected from oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur, wherein all said radicals may optionally be substituted with hydrogen, cyano, lower alkyl, nitro, amino, alicyclic hydrocarbon radicals, or aromatic hydrocarbon radicals which may be optionally substituted with lower alkyl;
• R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and lower alkyl;
• A is a lower alkyl radical wherein said radical is optionally substituted with hydrogen, lower alkyl, hydroxyl, lower alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkylaryloxy, thiol, lower thioalkoxy, thioalkylaryloxy, thioaryloxy, sulfinylalkyl, sulfinylalkylaryl, sulfinylaryl, sulfonylalkyl, sulfonylalkylaryl, sulfonylaryl, halogen, aromatic hydrocarbon radicals, or alicyclic hydrocarbon radicals; or A can be a direct bond to the remainder of the molecule
• B is CH 2 R 5 where R 5 is amidine, guandine, sulfonamide, amino which may be optionally substituted with alkyl, alkylaryl or aryl radicals.
• the present invention is directed to inhibiting nitric oxide synthesis in a subject in need of such inhibition or treatment by administering a compound of Formula (I) which preferentially inhibits the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase over the constitutive isoform of nitric oxide synthase, in a nitric oxide synthesis inhibiting amount to such subject.
• the invention further relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound from Formula (I).
• Compounds and compositions defined above have usefulness as inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase. These compounds also preferentially inhibit the inducible form over the constitutive form by at least 3 fold.
• Conditions in which there is an advantage in inhibiting NO production from L-arginine include systemic hypotension associated with septic and/or toxic shock induced by a wide variety of agents; therapy with cytokines such as TNF, IL-1 and IL-2; and as an adjuvant to short term immunosuppression in transplant therapy.
• Further conditions in which there is an advantage in inhibiting NO production from L-arginine include autoimmune diseases and/or inflammatory conditions such as those affecting the joints, for example arthritis or inflammatory bowel disease, cardiovascular ischemia, diabetes, cerebral ischemia and other CNS disorders mediated by NO.
• a preferred embodiment of the present invention is a compound of the formula (I) wherein
• Y is hydrogen or lower alkylene
• X is lower alkylene from 3-5 carbon
• A is lower alkylene from 1-3 carbons optionally substituted with hydroxyl or a direct bond connected to the remainder of the molecule.
• Y is methyl
• X is preferably butylene
• R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are preferably hydrogen
• A is preferably lower alkyl or a direct bond to the remainder of the molecule.
• the present invention includes compounds of formula (I) in the form of salts, in particular acid addition salts.
• Suitable salts include those formed with both organic and inorganic acids.
• Such acid addition salts will normally be pharmaceutically acceptable although salts of non-pharmaceutically acceptable salts may be of utility in the preparation and purification of the compound in question.
• preferred salts include those formed from hydrochloric, hydrobromic, sulfuric, citric, tartaric, phosphoric, lactic, acetic, succinic, fumaric, maleic, methanesulfonic, ethanesulfonic, p-toluenesulfonic, benzenesulfonic and the like.
• Salts of the compounds of formula (I) can be made by reacting the appropriate compound in the form of the free base with the appropriate acid.
• the present invention provides a pharmaceutical formulation comprising a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, together with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable carriers thereof and optionally one or more other therapeutic ingredients.
• the carrier(s) must be "acceptable” in the sense of being compatible with the other ingredients of the formulation and not deleterious to the recipient thereof.
• the formulations include those suitable for oral, parenteral (including subcutaneous, intradermal, intramuscular, intravenous and intraarticular), rectal and topical (including dermal, buccal, sublingual and intraocular) administration although the most suitable route may depend upon for example the condition and disorder of the recipient.
• the formulations may conveniently be presented in unit dosage form and may be prepared by any of the methods well known in the art of pharmacy. All methods include the step of bringing into association a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof ("active ingredient”) with the carrier which constitutes one or more accessory ingredients.
• the formulations are prepared by uniformly and intimately bringing into association the active ingredient with liquid carriers or finely divided solid carriers or both and then, if necessary, shaping the product into the desired formulation.
• Formulations of the present invention suitable for oral administration may be presented as discrete units such as capsules, cachets or tablets each containing a predetermined amount of the active ingredient; as a powder or granules; as a solution or a suspension in an aqueous liquid or a non-aqueous liquid; or as an oil-in-water liquid emulsion or a water-in-oil liquid emulsion.
• the active ingredient may also be presented as a bolus, electuary or paste.
• a tablet may be made by compression or moulding, optionally with one or more accessory ingredients.
• Compressed tablets may be prepared by compressing in a suitable machine the active ingredient in a free-flowing form such as a powder or granules, optionally mixed with a binder, lubricant, inert diluent, lubricating, surface active or dispersing agent.
• Moulded tablets may be made by moulding in a suitable machine a mixture of the powdered compound moistened with an inert liquid diluent.
• the tablets may optionally be coated or scored and may be formulated so as to provide slow or controlled release of the active ingredient therein.
• Formulations for parenteral administration include aqueous and non-aqueous sterile injection solutions which may contain antioxidants, buffers, bacteriostats and solutes which render the formulation isotonic with the blood of the intended recipient; and aqueous and non-aqueous sterile suspensions which may include suspending agents and thickening agents.
• the formulations may be presented in unit-dose or multi-dose containers, for example sealed ampoules and vials, and may be stored in a freeze-dried (lyophilized) condition requiring only the addition of the sterile liquid carrier, for example, saline, water-for-injection, immediately prior to use.
• Extemporaneous injection solutions and suspensions may be prepared from sterile powders, granules and tablets of the kind previously described.
• Formulations for rectal administration may be presented as a suppository with the usual carriers such as cocoa butter or polyethylene glycol.
• Formulations for topical administration in the mouth include lozenges comprising the active ingredient in a flavored basis such as sucrose and acacia or tragacanth, and pastilles comprising the active ingredient in a basis such as gelatin and glycerin or sucrose and acacia.
• Preferred unit dosage formulations are those containing an effective dose, as hereinbelow recited, or an appropriate fraction thereof, of the active ingredient.
• formulations of this invention may include other agents conventional in the art having regard to the type of formulation in question, for example those suitable for oral administration may include flavoring agents.
• the compounds of the invention may be administered orally or via injection at a dose of from 0.001 to 2500 mg/kg per day.
• the dose range for adult humans is generally from 0.005 mg to 10 g/day.
• Tablets or other forms of presentation provided in discrete units may conveniently contain an amount of compound of the invention which is effective at such dosage or as a multiple of the same, for instance, units containing 5 mg to 500 mg, usually around 10 mg to 200 mg.
• the compounds of formula (I) are preferably administered orally or by injection (intravenous or subcutaneous).
• the precise amount of compound administered to a patient will be the responsibility of the attendant physician. However, the dose employed will depend on a number of factors, including the age and sex of the patient, the precise disorder being treated, and its severity. Also, the route of administration may vary depending on the condition and its severity.
• lower alkyl means an acyclic alkyl radical containing from 1 to about 10, preferably from 1 to about 8 carbon atoms and more preferably 1 to about 6 carbon atoms.
• examples of such radicals include methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, isobutyl, sec-butyl, tert-butyl, pentyl, iso-amyl, hexyl, octyl and the like.
• lower alkenyl refers to an unsaturated acyclic hydrocarbon radical in so much as it contains at least one double bond. Such radicals containing from about 2 to about 10 carbon atoms, preferably from about 2 to about 8 carbon atoms and more preferably 2 to about 6 carbon atoms.
• suitable alkenyl radicals include propylenyl, buten-1-yl, isobutenyl, pentenylen-1-yl, 2-2-methylbuten-1-yl, 3-methylbuten-1-yl, hexen-1-yl, hepten-1-yl, and octen-1-yl, and the like.
• lower alkynyl refers to an unsaturated acyclic hydrocarbon radical in so much as it contains one or more triple bonds, such radicals containing about 2 to about 10 carbon atoms, preferably having from about 2 to about 8 carbon atoms and more preferably having 2 to about 6 carbon atoms.
• alkynyl radicals examples include ethynyl, propynyl, butyn-1-yl, butyn-2-yl, pentyn-1-yl, pentyn-2-yl, 3-methylbutyn-1-yl, hexyn-1-yl, hexyn-2-yl, hexyn-3-yl, 3,3-dimethylbutyn-1-yl radicals and the like.
• alicyclic hydrocarbon or "cycloalkyl” means a aliphatic radical in a ring with 3 to about 10 carbon atoms, and preferably from 3 to about 6 carbon atoms.
• suitable alicyclic radicals include cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl, cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl, cyclohexenyl and the like.
• aromatic hydrocarbon radical means 4 to about 16 carbon atoms,preferably 6 to about 12 carbon atoms, more preferably 6 to about 10 carbon atoms.
• suitable aromatic hydrocarbon radicals include phenyl,naphthyl, and the like.
• aryl as used herein means 5- and 6-membered single-aromatic radicals which may include from zero to four heteroatoms.
• Representative aryls include phenyl, thienyl, furanyl, pyridinyl, (is)oxazoyl and the like.
• DCM dichloromethane
• DEAD means diethyl azodicarboxylate.
• DIBAL-H means diisobutylaluminum hydride.
• DMAP means dimethylaminopyridine.
• DMSO dimethylsulfoxide
• EDC means 1-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-3-ethylcarbodiimide hydrochloride.
• heterocyclyl radical means a saturated or unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon radical including aromatic systems with 4 to about 10 carbon atoms, preferably about 5 to about 6; wherein 1 to about 4 carbon atoms are replaced by nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur.
• the "heterocyclic radical” may be fused to an aromatic hydrocarbon radical.
• Suitable examples include pyrrolyl, pyridinyl, pyrazolyl, triazolyl, pyrimidinyl, pyridazinyl, oxazolyl, isoxazolyl, thiazolyl, imidazolyl, indolyl, thienyl, furanyl, tetrazolyl, 2-pyrrolinyl, 3-pyrrolinyl, pyrrolindinyl, 1,3-dioxolanyl, 2-imidazonlinyl, imidazolidinyl, 2-pyrazolinyl, pyrazolidinyl, isoxazolyl, isothiazolyl, oxadiazolyl, triazolyl, thiadiazolyl, 2H-pyranyl, 4H-pyranyl, piperidinyl, 1,4-dioxanyl, morpholinyl, 1,4-dithianyl, thiomorpholinyl, pyraziny
• HOBT means N-hydroxybenzotriazole.
• lower alkoxy means an alkyl ether radical wherein the term alkyl is as defined above and most preferably containing 1 to about 4 carbon atoms.
• suitable alkyl ether radicals include methoxy, ethoxy, n-propoxy, isopropoxy, n-butoxy, iso-butoxy, sec-butoxy, tert-butoxy and the like.
• lower thioalkoxy means an alkyl thioether radical wherein the term alkyl is as defined above and most preferably containing 1 to about 4 carbon atoms.
• suitable alkyl thioether radicals include thiomethoxy, thioethoxy, thio-n-propoxy, thio-i-propoxy, thio-n-butoxy, thio-iso-butoxy, thio-sec-butoxy, thio-tert-butoxy and the like.
• alkoxycarbonyl as used herein means an alkoxy group, as defined above, having a carbonyl (C ⁇ O) group attached.
• halogen means fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine.
• mcpba means m-chloroperbenzoic acid.
• NMM N-methylmorpholine
• NMMO 4-methylmorpholine N-oxide
• prodrug refers to a compound that is made more active in vivo.
• sulfinyl means SO.
• sulfonyl means SO 2 .
• TEA means triethylamine
• TMSN 3 means azidotrimethylsilane.
• treatment of a patient is intended to include prophylaxis.
• Compounds of the present invention can exist in geometric or stereoisomeric forms.
• the present invention contemplates all such compounds, including cis- and trans-geometric isomers, E- and Z-geometric isomers, R- and S-enantiomers, diastereomers, d-isomers, l-isomers, the racemic mixtures thereof and other mixtures thereof, as falling within the scope of the invention.
• the purified product is treated with 1N HCl for 1 h at ambient temperature to give 1.
• Example 2 was prepared in the same manner as described in Example 1 starting with 2d (0.90 g, 2.4 mmol) to give 0.44 g (47%).
• Example 4 is prepared in same manner as described in Example 1 starting with 1e and benzylamine.
• Example 5a is prepared from 2b. Benzyloxycarbonyl protecting group is removed from 2b by catalytic hydrogenation using Pd black as the catalyst yielding 5a quantitatively.
• Example 5 is prepared in the same manner as Example 1 starting with 5a.
• Example 6 is prepared in same manner as described in Example 1 starting with 1e and t-butylamine.
• Example 7a is prepared from 1e and benzyl carbamate as described in 1f.
• Example 7 is prepared in the same manner as described in Example 1 starting with 7b.
• Nitric oxide synthase activity was measured by monitoring the conversion of L- 2,3-3H!-arginine to L- 2,3-3H!-citrulline (1,2).
• the cDNA for human inducible NOS was isolated from a ⁇ cDNA library made from RNA extracted from a colon sample from a patient with ulcerative colitis; human endothelial constitutive NOS (hecNOS) was isolated from a ⁇ cDNA library made from RNA extracted from human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC); and human neuronal constitutive NOS (hncNOS) was isolated from a ⁇ cDNA library made from RNA extracted from human cerebellum from a cadaver.
• the recombinant enzymes were expressed in insect cells using a baculovirus vector. Enzyme activity was isolated from cell extracts and partially purified by DEAE-Sepharose chromatography (2). Enzyme and inhibitors were added to give a volume of 50 ⁇ L in 50 mM Tris (pH 7.6) and the reaction initiated by the addition of 50 ⁇ L of a solution containing 50 mM Tris (pH 7.6), 2.0 mg/mL bovine serum albumin, 2.0 mM DTT, 4.0 mM CaCl2, 20 ⁇ M FAD, 100 ⁇ M tetrahydrobiopterin, 0.4-2.0 mM NADPH and 60 ⁇ M L-arginine containing 0.9 ⁇ Ci of L- 2,3-3H!-arginine.
• calmodulin was included at a final concentration of 40-100 nM. Following incubation at 37° C. for 15 minutes, the reaction was terminated by addition of 300 ⁇ L cold buffer containing 10 mM EGTA, 100 mM HEPES (pH5.5) and 1.0 mM L-citrulline. The 3H!-citrulline was separated by chromatography on Dowex 50W X-8 cation exchange resin and radioactivity quantified with a liquid scintillation counter.

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